The Clippers manage to stay close to Portland for three quarters, but they play much of the game on borrowed time. How can we tell? By taking a closer look at the shot distribution. While both teams shoot well in the first half — Portland 55.9%, the Clippers 48.5% — Portland gets prec[...]

In his most recent Draft Watch column at ESPN.com, Chad Ford appraises the talent pool at the wings in the upcoming draft: While there is some talent, the field doesn’t appear to have the next Dwyane Wade or even the next Danny Granger in the mix. When you take a look at the Clippers’ or[...]

Anyone with a rooting interest in the Clippers would do much better to ignore wins and losses and segment the remainder of the season into a series of smaller goals. The Clippers are unlikely to win many basketball games between now and some point in the future when a combination of Baron Davis, Zac[...]

For the better part of a month, Marcus Camby stabilized the Clippers’ interior play — both their rebounding attack and the business of patrolling the paint defensively. As bad as things got for the Clippers over their twelve-game losing streak that ended on Saturday night, Camby helped[...]

DeAndre Jordan says that fellow rookie Eric Gordon has been blackballed from half-court shooting contests: By the way, Eric got banned from the team half-court competition. I told you how after practice we have competitions; one of them is taking half-court shots and seeing who can make the most. He[...]

So says Skeets… The Los Angeles Clippers today signed free agent power forward God to a one-day contract. And no, we’re not talking about International Basketball League guard God Shammgod. (Though they could probably use him too.) We’re talking God God. The big guy up above. Appar[...]

One of the more interesting debates that rages each June is whether an organization should draft on need, or take the best player available on the board. There are those who believe that an NBA team should draft the best available player, irrespective of need. The more traditional school subscribe[...]

Tonight, the Clippers convert points on only one of their first seven possessions. As analytic exercises go, documenting these fruitless offensive sets almost seems cruel. Here at Clipperblog, we’re gluttons for punishment: [1st, 11:25] The ball runs through Camby at the top of the circle.[...]